Browse Stories (41 total)

June 15, 2021 Hello Teacher! Day 183 
Congratulations! It looks like we made it, made it through an unforgettable year of teaching, learning, in person, in school, in sickness and in health, here we are on the last day of school, June 2021. We have…

Hello Teacher day 180
Today as I rise with the sunrise I realize this exceptional school year is about to come to a close. The plethora of emotions that I feel bubble to the surface of awareness during my early morning walk, but I am surprised that…

Hello Teacher! Day 173
During my mandatory mask break today with one of my classes, I overheard a teacher wishing another teacher "Happy June!" Sweet words every year, but especially this June, after the historic year we have just endured…
May 2021…

Hello Teacher! Day 169
My head is so full of ideas and situations that I want to share but I don't know where to begin. First of all I noticed that I haven't posted in about ten days and it's not because there is a shortage of experiences to talk…

May 13,2021 Hello Teacher! Day 161
This is our second full week back in school full time and the struggle in my schedule is pacing. After teaching longer 60 plus minute virtual classes two or three times per week, the question of the week is how…

May 7, 2021 Hello Teacher! Day 157
I figured I owe it to you to write twice in one week, especially the momentous week we teachers and our students just had, you know the one that put us back into our classrooms, seven periods per day, five days per…

May 3, 2021 Hello Teacher! Day 153
T.S. Eliot begins his epic poem “The Wasteland” with “April is the cruelest month,” but that is because he did not live through May 2021, the month that changed our last year of confinement with a deliberate…

April 30, 2021 Hello Teacher! Day 152
Oh my, time flies when you are having fun! Or time has been flowing differently when I am more occupied than I have been in over a year! My life has become a zippy one, it seems, with a snap of the fingers. …

What a week it has been! With the regular education students returning, the processing of the full force and enormity of last year’s shutdown came crashing to a sudden halt. No time to process, there we were, in class, with students who were our…

Today I’m going to ‘write’ in my journal as a take my familiar walk through the neighborhood park. I realize it has been a while since writing in my “Hello Teacher!” journal. In fact, I haven’t written since the Friday before February vacation, and…